Tumeng: I am a national advisor in the Golden Family

The task of overcoming the military and political affairs of the Southern Song Dynasty was naturally given to Subotai and his group of Mongolian chiefs.

After all, the Mongols are extremely good at this roundabout kite-flying tactic.

"Master Military Advisor, just keep an eye on it! This time I will show you our Mongolian tactics." After Subotai finished speaking, he waved his hand. The first Mongolian army of ten thousand people was divided into ten small groups, and they rode together and raised their whips. Rushed towards the military and political affairs of the Southern Song Dynasty.

The military administration of the Southern Song Dynasty did not dare to neglect. The shield soldiers holding large shields in front pressed against the shields in their hands. Hold the spear against the middle part and prepare for the Mongols' frontal charge.

But the Mongolian cavalry attacked the two wings of the Song army, then put down the scimitars in their hands, and drew their bows and arrows when they were still 150 steps away from the Song army's camp.

The flying arrows fell into the Song Army's camp, but the Song Army's crossbowmen also began to shoot at each other with the Mongolian cavalry.

But one set up a moving target and the other set up a fixed target. Logically speaking, the Mongolian cavalry troops should have the upper hand, but one side was protected by some shield soldiers, while the other side had no protection at all.

Many Mongolian soldiers on horseback were shot down by the crossbowmen of the Southern Song Dynasty. Those who fell to the ground were turned upside down, or even trampled to death by the horses.

After several rounds of battles, the Mongolian cavalry's riding and shooting tactics did not take much advantage in the formation of the Southern Song army.

The dense iron barrel array deployed by the Southern Song Dynasty was indeed very suitable for defending against harassment tactics by archers and cavalry, but it was not without its weaknesses.

Once the Mongolian army used projectiles, most of the troops in the middle of the Southern Song camp were shot dead.

After all, the flexible mobility makes it difficult to aim and shoot, and the military cards in the Southern Song Dynasty's military affairs cannot provide complete protection. Most of the shield soldiers are protecting the archers.

The remaining ordinary soldiers suffered heavy casualties from the bows and arrows of the Mongolian cavalry.

"Subotai-sama, please stop attacking now! We won't be able to get much advantage if this continues. I already have a way to deal with them." Zhang Yong stopped Subotai who wanted to continue the attack and said.

After several rounds of charges by Mongolian soldiers, some time had passed.

The sky was completely dark at this time. Zhang Yong's side has already lit the torch, and so has the Southern Song Dynasty military formation.

Zhang Yong picked up his high-definition binoculars with night vision function and looked at the Southern Song Dynasty military formation. Many Southern Song soldiers were yawning, and it seemed that they had not rested well.

The Southern Song Dynasty army began to retreat last night. They walked all day today until they were overtaken by me in the afternoon, and then they fought until now. It's strange that they are in good condition.

As for the Mongolian cavalry on my side, they slept all night last night, and the physical strength of the two sides was not at the same level at all.

"Master Strategist! Otherwise, let your three thousand heavy cavalry come out, and then charge head-on to disrupt their formation. As long as they disrupt their formation, our subsequent cavalry can annihilate them in one fell swoop." Subotai said.

Subutai also saw the heavy armored cavalry unit mobilized by Zhang Yong, and he was also very coveted for this cavalry unit.

After all, the equipment is really good, the whole body is heavily armored, and even the war horse is protected by iron armor.

And both the soldiers and the horses are all strong and strong. Once such a team launches a charge, it will be quite a terrifying force.

If this heavy armored cavalry could break through the shield soldiers of the Southern Song Dynasty, then his rangers could charge in.

The military formation of the Southern Song Dynasty is being completely disrupted. When the 150,000 troops are in chaos, they will be just 150,000 lambs to be slaughtered.

"The heavy armored cavalry charge can indeed break up their formation, but what I want is minimal casualties. In this case, the casualties will be huge." Zhang Yong shook his head and said.

This heavy cavalry of my own cost a lot of money to build. It looks majestic, but in fact they are all new recruits that have not experienced any actual combat tests.

Just like the opening of a fighting dog's mouth, their first battle is very important, if they don't win well.

For this newly established cavalry, it will cause a considerable psychological shadow.

It will affect many battles in the future. A good start and an overwhelming victory are necessary.

So you can't choose an opponent that's too powerful. You have to choose an opponent that can't beat it at all and can be crushed.

And this Southern Song army is now in a dense formation, if this heavy armored cavalry launches a charge.

It was indeed possible to open a hole and completely tear apart the Southern Song army's formation, but Zhang Yong had no idea how many people could come back alive.

Please, do you know how much it costs to raise heavily armored cavalry?

I am very rich now, but I can't afford to build a heavy armored cavalry of 5,000 people.

These three thousand cavalry are already their ultimate strength. If they can capture the entire land of Sichuan and Shu, then the number of these cavalry can be increased appropriately.

Raising a heavy armored cavalry not only costs money for people, but also for equipment and horses.

"Master Strategist, don't be reluctant to give up. There are some things on the battlefield that must be given up. If these three thousand heavy armored cavalry can tear a hole, then we will win." Subotai said.

According to his estimation, if they open a hole, the heavy armored cavalry will not be needed behind them. They will only have a few hundred casualties at most, which should be within the tolerance range.

"General Subotai, those heavy armored cavalry are all new recruits. Although they are well-equipped, they have just been trained after all. Besides, I already have the idea of ​​defeating them." Zhang Yong said.

"Tell me, military advisor, is there any way to break through their formation? You don't want to throw gasoline cans, do you?" Subotai asked.

Did this gentleman want to throw a gasoline can into the enemy's formation?

The enemy lit a torch, and if the gasoline can can really be smashed in, it would be extremely effective.

But if the cavalry throws the gasoline can on the horse, the distance will not be reached! If you throw it by hand, it won't go very far.

At most, they were thrown ten steps away from them. If they were any closer, the Mongolian cavalry would be shot into sieves by the crossbowmen before they could take action.

The attack distance of the trebuchet is 150 steps, which is also within the striking range of the crossbowmen of the Southern Song Dynasty.

"General Subotai, we can have the cavalry troops pour a circle of gasoline around them, put some flammable materials on them, then ignite the gasoline and surround them with a fire array.

Surround them first and put them in a dilemma.

After all, we had a night's rest, and they marched all night, so their physical strength would definitely not be able to keep up with us.

We will waste them first, and when my thunder cannon and cannon arrive, we will win. "Zhang Yong said.

To deal with this dense array of iron barrels, your own thunder cannon can easily tear them apart.

When the time comes, your armored cavalry will launch an attack together with the Mongolian cavalry, and tens of thousands of cavalry will charge together. The 150,000 Southern Song army will basically be finished.

"Well! Then let's wait! It's best to wait until dawn the next day, then the view will be wider." Subotai said.

It was daybreak, which was more advantageous for their cavalry because the view was wider.

"Well! The baggage troops are still ten miles away from us. They should arrive in the middle of the night. We will annihilate them after dawn." Zhang Yong said.

"Okay then, let's surround them with fire formations first." Subotai finally agreed to Zhang Yong's tactical arrangement.

After Zhang Yong's order was issued, countless Mongolian soldiers picked up the gasoline cans they had carried before, and then began to circle the formation of the Southern Song army, pouring gasoline in a circle, and then found someone to cut down all the nearby trees.

Then they were piled around the Southern Song Dynasty army. After pouring gasoline, a huge wall of fire formed and surrounded the Southern Song army.

The huge flame formation really scared the Southern Song Army, and the soldiers in the Southern Song Army began to whisper among themselves.

A feeling of fear spread instantly.

Because many soldiers in the Southern Song Dynasty had heard that the Mongols would use a kind of demon fire that could not be extinguished by water. If this kind of flame was used to deal with them at this time, wouldn't they suffer heavy casualties? "Sir! It seems that the Mongolian army wants to trap us here! Our soldiers have been traveling for a day and a night, and they are all exhausted now. If we are trapped like this again, we may be in danger of being annihilated. ." A deputy general said.

Now there are 150,000 of them, nestled in this place just a few miles away, and the population is extremely dense.

Once the Mongolian cavalry launches a charge regardless of the cost, they will be doomed. Now it is even worse for them to play this trapped method.

After all, the scouts of the Southern Song Dynasty army were not idiots. They still knew that there was a heavy armored cavalry unit among the Mongolian cavalry.

Their dense armored formation was most afraid of heavy cavalry charges, but for some unknown reason, the heavy cavalry of the Mongolian army had not been dispatched.

"Instruct the whole army to set up camp on the spot, and then let all the soldiers start eating dry food. The soldiers on the outside will withdraw to the inside first, and then rest and sleep on the spot. The soldiers on the inside will go up first and rotate." Zhao Fan said.

This time, he had no choice but to withdraw his troops in a hurry. If he did not withdraw, their fate would not be much better when the Mongolian cavalry rushed out of the city.

The ambush troops originally arranged according to his plan. Used to block the Mongolian army, it can delay them for at least two to three days. By then, your army will have retreated to Sichuan and Sichuan, and you will no longer be afraid of the Mongolian pursuit.

But who could have imagined that the troops who stayed behind the army, including the death squads, would be annihilated by the Mongolian army in less than a day, and they would be overtaken by the Mongolian army at nightfall.

"Sir! Are we just going to waste time with them?" A Southern Song general asked unwillingly.

More than 100,000 of them are surrounded by tens of thousands of people from the other side. What is this?

Even if the cavalry surrounded the infantry, it would be very frustrating.

"That's all we can do now. The military rations and dry food we carry should be enough to last for seven or eight days. The Mongolian army is riding over to pursue them. Food and grass are also a big problem.

They probably only brought dry food for a day or two, so they won't besiege us for too long. We just need to let them retreat before the difficulties. "Zhao Fan said.

When the cavalry comes out to pursue them, they usually only carry a little dry food, which is enough for one day at most. Not to mention that so many horses also need fodder.

Otherwise, by tomorrow, these horses will be too hungry to run, and then the opportunity for my army to retreat will come.

If you want to spend time with me, then go ahead! Unless you send the heavy armored cavalry out to charge, if the heavy armored cavalry charges, I will place the flint cannon in the center of the camp and directly blast your heavy armored cavalry troops.

Due to confidentiality measures, the Southern Song Dynasty army did not know the specific power of the flying thunder cannons equipped by the Mongolian army, although they knew that such weapons existed.

But in the perception of high-level people in the Southern Song Dynasty, these were things like their flint cannons and sky-shattering cannons, which were firearms copied by the Mongolian army.

"General Zhao! No matter what, this 150,000-strong army must not be lost. If all these 150,000-strong troops are annihilated, then the land of Sichuan and Shu will be wide open." Supervisor surnamed Lu said.

"Lord Supervisor. Don't worry, our formation is very dense. Even if the Mongols send out all their cavalry to charge, they will definitely break through our formation." Zhao Fan said.

"How about I wait for a breakout?" Lu Jianjun asked.

"No, Lord Supervisor, we are infantry and they are cavalry. As long as we start running, we will definitely die.

If the cavalry kills the infantry, it will be a complete massacre. We have no chance at all. "Zhao Fan shook his head and said.

There was no way, this was the shortcoming of their Song Dynasty. Whether facing the Liao Dynasty, the Xixia Dynasty, or the Jin Kingdom and Mongolia now, the Song Dynasty army always suffered from the losses of the cavalry.

In terms of overall strength, whether it is the soldiers' daily training, physical fitness, or the weapons they are equipped with, the infantry of these countries are not as good as the Song Dynasty.

But no matter how good your weapons and equipment are, you can't withstand the crazy raids and collisions of the cavalry. There are too many cases where hundreds of thousands of Song expeditionary troops were wiped out by the cavalry troops in the grasslands.

It is really difficult for them, the Young Masters of the Song Dynasty, to launch a war of external expansion. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, their territory has been shrinking and has been encroached upon by the grassland regime, which has never stopped.

Most of the land that was once the country's founding period has now been lost.

"What I mean is! Gather the cavalry troops under your command. If the whole army is annihilated, you can escort us away." The supervisor surnamed Lu said.

No matter what, I can't die here. The news of the Mongolian army's attack must be obtained by the soldiers at Tongguan. Just go back and report it to the officials yourself.

The deputy generals of the Southern Song Dynasty were furious when they heard this. Several people stared at the supervisor surnamed Lu with fierce eyes.

Is there any mistake? We haven't been defeated yet. Although we are surrounded by the enemy, our military strength is still there. You actually said such depressing words at this time and escorted you to escape.

"Master Supervisor, are you thinking of escaping before we are defeated?" a military general roared.

Since arriving at the military camp, this military officer has basically not been involved in military affairs.

He seemed to be quite easy to talk to at ordinary times. These generals had a good impression of him, but these words completely angered them.

"Am I a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death? Naturally, I am willing to go to the national disaster with all the generals, but if I stay useful, wouldn't I be able to serve the country more?" The supervisor surnamed Lu said politely when he saw that he had offended the public.

What a bad start! Could it be that the Song Dynasty couldn't win a foreign war?

Since the Northern Dynasties, when they had a small victory over the Liao outside the pass, and Marshal Yue attacked the Jin Dynasty twice, the Song Dynasty had never won a foreign war.

Zhao Fan waved his hand to stop several angry Southern Song generals, looked at the supervisor surnamed Lu and said.

"Master Lu, we can't escape. The Mongolian cavalry is much faster than us, unless our army is defeated.

Only when the entire army is wiped out can you escape among the rebels. Otherwise, if you lead a cavalry to break out now, you will only be shot dead by the Mongols or captured alive. "Zhao Fan said.

"But if our entire army is wiped out, who will report the news here to the court and officials?" Supervisor Lu asked.

"If the moment comes when the entire army is annihilated, I will arrange elite cavalry to escort you away." Zhao Fan said angrily.

I'm not defeated yet! Now we are spending our time here, the Mongols cannot break in.

We also have enough food and grass, which can last him ten days and a half. By then, the Mongolian army will naturally not be able to bear to leave.

Unless they want to fight at any cost, they will be able to bite off a piece of their flesh even if they die.

The supervisor surnamed Lu sighed, looked at the huge flames soaring into the sky around him, and shook his head helplessly, saying no more words.

He was afraid that if he said something else he would irritate the gang of warriors, so they would pull him off his horse and hack him to death.

Soon, the Southern Song army began to set up some wooden stakes on the outside and prepared a large number of resisting horses.

Then the shield-raising soldiers on the outside were replaced by the soldiers on the inside, ate some dry food distributed with the army, and then rested and slept on the spot.

Although their withdrawal was a bit hasty this time, the dry food they prepared was still sufficient. Each soldier carried three days' worth of dry food, making it easier to eat while walking.

Seeing that the Southern Song army began to camp and rest on the spot, Zhang Yong also asked the Mongolian army to withdraw. In addition to leaving some people to monitor, the rest also rested on the spot and ate something to replenish their strength.

The two sides just spent a lot of time. After a few hours, the sky gradually turned brighter.

Zhang Yong finally received the news that his baggage troops had finally arrived.

Thousands of infantrymen pushed a large amount of supplies and arrived at the Mongolian army.

Among them were more than a dozen flying thunder cannons that Zhang Yong had prepared in advance and were also delivered.

The cannons used in the previous attack on Tongguan have been taken away by Wokuotai. Now these dozen or so flying thunder cannons are Zhang Yong's last inventory.

"You came at the right time. Immediately set up these twelve thunder cannons for me, then aim at the Song Army's camp and launch explosive packages in mortar mode." Zhang Yong said.

The firing range of the flying thunder cannon is more than two hundred meters, just enough to reach the formation of the Southern Song Dynasty army. (End of chapter)